Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally
Dellwood Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 29189211802 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 3,118 · 76% of tract blocks fall in Dellwood
Census tract 29189211802 covers part of Dellwood, MO, and scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,118 residents. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 19%
Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units1,208
Renter share35.0%
SVI overall0.43
Poverty rate10.8%
Median income$61,574
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
66
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
75
th percentile
Elevated
National
51
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Dellwood and the region
Centroid at 38.7567, -90.2730 · click any tract to drill in
Why Dellwood scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Dellwood
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
10.8% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$1,106 rent vs county FMR
4.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Dellwood
3.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Dellwood
8.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Dellwood
5.5
How Dellwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 43
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 2%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 698Total filings over 8 yrs
- 20.13%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.7%Peak (2017)
- 112Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 47% over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 721Total filings 2020-21
- 9.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.26×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 24.9%Housing insecurity
- 18.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.2%Food insecurity
- 22.3%SNAP enrollment
- 14.5%Transit barriers
- 10.0%No health insurance
- 19.8%Frequent mental distress
- 39.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Dellwood
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.5/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10. Housing insecurity runs 24.9% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 698 filings here across 8 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2017, when 13.7% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 20.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 4.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. 45% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 29189211802
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189211802?
Census tract 29189211802 in Dellwood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 29189211802?
Median gross rent is $1,106/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29189211802?
10.8% of residents in tract 29189211802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,118.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29189211802?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 43th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 70th, minority 90th, housing 13th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189211802?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 698 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189211802 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 20.13% of renter households, peaking at 13.7% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 29189211802 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.26× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 29189211802 struggle to pay rent?
About 24.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 18.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 29189211802 compare to Dellwood overall?
Tract 29189211802 scores 4.5/10, higher than the parent city of Dellwood at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Dellwood; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 29189211802 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Dellwood
Top eight tracts in Dellwood ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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